crabbe and goyle?

[justcarol67]

"leeannmccullough" wrote:
Ok, is it just me or does someone look odd in POA? Every scene with 
Malfoy had two sidekicks with him. But one of them looks different! 
I can't remember if it was Crabbe or Goyle that seemed to be 
missing, but one of them got fairly tall and ugly. I have searched 
everywhere I can think of and I keep comming up with the origonal 
two from SS. Someone let me know if it is early senility, I'm only 
40 for heaven sake.
 
aj responded:
Goyle is often replaced with another Slytherin boy in the movie.  I 
wondered at it too.  Someone asked people involved with the film 
about it, and it was just cited as 'another slytherin boy.'  Who 
knows, any clue?

Carol:
If the PoA film were by the book, the boy would have to be either Theo
Nott or Blaise Zabini, the only other male Slytherins in Harry's year
who have yet been identified. But the classes seem to be much larger
in the films than the books (and of course there's the class size
discrepancy between the first two books and OoP, the only books in
which numbers are mentioned, IIRC). I don't think the boy is Theo
Nott, who I'm hoping will play a larger role in HBP (not sure that I
dare trust the signs though, after Mark Evans). But since the
Hufflepuff seeker in Poa is not Cedric Diggory, I'm guessing that this
unnamed Slytherin boy is not Theo Nott. (Maybe he's one of the
Slytherin Quidditch team members?)

As someone else noted, it probably has more to do with Josh Herdman
(Gregory Goyle's) personal life interfering with his shooting schedule
than with changes to the plot line.

Speaking of Crabbe and Goyle, anyone have any ideas as to why Goyle
Sr. was apparently absent from the MoM in OoP? (I think he may have
been the baby-headed Death Eater, but I haven't checked the book to
see if that happens before or after Lucius Malfoy essentially calls
the roll of the DEs who are still active.)

Carol